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Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı, Masis) is a 5,137 m volcano in eastern Turkey, site of the 1829 first ascent by Friedrich Parrot and Khachatur Abovian and traditionally linked to Noah's Ark.

Mount Arayat

Mount Arayat is an inactive 1,026 m volcano in Pampanga, Philippines, protected as the Mt. Arayat Protected Landscape (RA 11684, 2022), a former national park, hiking destination, and home of the Kapampangan legend Aring Sinukuan.

Mount Asama (浅間山)

Mount Asama (浅間山, Asamayama) is a 2,568 m active stratovolcano on the Nagano–Gunma border, Japan, monitored 24 hours by JMA; its 1783 Tenmei eruption killed 1,624 people, and its alert level returned to 1 in May 2026.

Mount Aso (阿蘇山)

Mount Aso, also known as Aso-san, is an active volcano in central Kyushu, Japan, whose Aso Caldera spans up to 24 km and erupts roughly every 10–20 years.

Mount Baker

Mount Baker (Kw-eq Smaenit, "White Rock") is a 3,286 m andesitic stratovolcano in Whatcom County, Washington, the northernmost and second most heavily glaciated Cascade volcano, last erupting about 6,700 years ago with 1975 unrest at Sherman Crater.

Mount Bartle Frere

Mount Bartle Frere, in the Bellenden Ker Range, Wooroonooran National Park, is Queensland's highest peak (1,611–1,622 m) in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, with Australia's highest rainfall and a demanding Grade 5 summit trail.

Mount Batu

Mount Batu, 4,307 m, a high peak of the Bale Mountains in Oromia, Ethiopia, within Bale Mountains National Park near the Sanetti Plateau and Harenna Forest; distinct from Indonesian and Malaysian peaks of the same name.

Mount Bazardüzü

Mount Bazardüzü (Bazardüzü dağı, Базардюзю), 4,466 m, is the highest peak of Azerbaijan and Dagestan on the Greater Caucasus border ridge; six glaciers, first climbed 1849, non-technical two-day guided ascent with permit.

Mount Bintumani

Mount Bintumani (Loma Mansa), 1,945 m, is Sierra Leone's highest peak and the tallest in West Africa west of Mount Cameroon, crowning the Loma Mountains in Koinadugu District within Loma Mountains National Park.

Mount Blue Sky

Mount Blue Sky, formerly Mount Evans, is a 14,265-foot peak in Colorado's Front Range about 60 km west of Denver, renamed in 2023 to honor the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes.

Mount Bogong

Mount Bogong (Warkwoolowler) is Victoria's highest mountain at 1,986 m, in Alpine National Park's Victorian Alps. Named for the Bogong moth gathered there by Aboriginal groups; climbed via Staircase, Eskdale, or Granite Flat routes.

Mount Bouvier

Mount Bouvier (Pic Bouvier, Mont Bouvier) is a mainly ice-covered mountain, about 2,075 m high, in central Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula, named by Charcot's 1903-05 expedition for French naturalist Louis-Eugène Bouvier.

Mount Bowles

Mount Bowles, a rounded mountain (c. 750-914 m by source) between South Bay and Moon Bay on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; charted by Foster in 1829, named for Capt. W. Bowles, RN; first ascent 2003.

Mount Bransfield

Mount Bransfield, also Mont Bransfield or Bransfield, Monte, is a 760 m conical ice-covered mountain at the northeast end of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, named in 1838 by d'Urville for Edward Bransfield, who mapped the area in 1820.

Mount Brown Icefield

Mount Brown Icefield, an official icefield and glacier at 2,455 m on the British Columbia-Alberta boundary near Athabasca Pass, named for Mount Brown, once reputed Canada's highest peak.

Mount Calais

Mount Calais (Calais, Mount) is a 2,345 m mountain on the NW side of Schokalsky Bay, northeast Alexander Island, Antarctica. First surveyed in 1909 by Charcot's French expedition and named for the French city; resurveyed by the FIDS in 1948.

Mount Carmel

Mount Carmel, in Hebrew Hakkarmel and Arabic Kurmul, is a limestone ridge in northwestern Israel running from the Ramat Menashe hills to Haifa Bay, rising to 546 m.

Mount Caubvick

Mount Caubvick, known in Quebec as Mont D'Iberville, is a 1,652 m mountain in the Torngat Mountains on the Labrador–Quebec border, highest in both provinces.

Mount Cleveland

Mount Cleveland (Chuginadak) is an active 1,730 m stratovolcano on uninhabited Chuginadak Island in Alaska's Aleutians, in near-continuous eruption since 2001, last exploding June 1, 2020; a major Aleutian aviation ash hazard.

Mount Coman

Mount Coman (Coman, Mount) is an Antarctic mountain rising to about 1,550 m near the head of Swann Glacier, Lassiter Coast, seen from the air by RARE in 1947 and named for Dr F. Dana Coman, Byrd expedition medical officer.

Mount D'Urville

Mount D'Urville (d'Urville, Mount) is a 1,085 m Antarctic mountain north of Louis-Philippe Plateau, Trinity Peninsula, charted 27 February 1838 by Dumont d'Urville's French expedition and named for him.

Mount Diablo

Mount Diablo is a 3,849-foot peak in the Diablo Range of the San Francisco Bay Area, chosen in 1851 as the survey initial point for most of Northern California and Nevada.

Mount Dimlang

Mount Dimlang (Vogel Peak) is a 2,042 m mountain in the Shebshi Mountains, Adamawa State, Nigeria, near Ganye and the Cameroon border; it is the range's highest point, though not Nigeria's highest.

Mount Duemler

Mount Duemler (Duemler, Monte) is a roughly 2,200 m mountain in Palmer Land, Antarctica, at 70°01'S 63°45'W, charted by Rymill's BGLE in 1936-37 and named by Finn Ronne for coal supplier R. F. Duemler.

Mount Eddy

Mount Eddy, 9,025 ft (2,751 m), highest peak of the Klamath Mountains in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California; also called the Eddy Range highpoint, with the Mount Eddy Research Natural Area and Deadfall Lakes.

Mount Edgell

Mount Edgell (Edgell, Mount) is a 1,675 m mountain ESE of Cape Jeremy, Fallières Coast, west Antarctic Peninsula. First seen by Charcot's 1908-10 expedition as 'Île Gordon Bennett', renamed in 1936 for Admiral Sir J.A. Edgell; an eroded volcanic centre.

Mount Elbert

Mount Elbert, in Colorado's Sawatch Range near Leadville, is the highest peak in Colorado and the Rockies at about 14,433-14,440 ft and the second-highest in the contiguous United States, named for governor Samuel Hitt Elbert.

Mount Elbrus (Эльбрус)

Mount Elbrus (Эльбрус), a dormant stratovolcano in the Russian Caucasus, is Europe's highest peak at 5,642 m under the watershed boundary convention; Mont Blanc is the rival claimant. First ascents 1829 and 1874.

Mount Elgon

Mount Elgon: extinct shield volcano on the Uganda–Kenya border, oldest in East Africa at about 24 million years, Wagagai summit 4,321 m, 8 km caldera, transboundary UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2023.

Mount Erebus

Mount Erebus, southernmost active volcano on Earth on Ross Island, Antarctica; 3,794 m stratovolcano with a persistent phonolite lava lake active since 1972, Strombolian eruptions, satellite-monitored, and site of the 1979 Air New Zealand TE901 crash.